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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Devils & Dust - Rol Hirst

Panel One.

A pale and sickly Buffy Summers sits in a hospital walk-in clinic waiting for her results. She’s wearing a white smock and is sitting up on the doctor’s examination bed / couch. Her clothes and satchel are piled up on a nearby stool. We can see the top of a wooden stake sticking out the top of her bag.

A doctor walks into the room. If I ruled the world, this would be Dr. Gregory House. Get over it.

Hands up - I know there were far too many panels in this page. Ideally it'd have been two pages and the break would have come with the vampire reveal, giving more time for the fight and twist on page 2. That said, I wanted to write a pre-titles intro hook sequence for the TV show, and the reveal that the doc was a vamp just wasn't strong enough by itself.

I'm not surprised that the vampire without a heart thing has been done before. It seemed too obvious not to have been, but I felt it worked in the context of this character - a heartless bastard anyway.

No, Ben, she wouldn't have killed him that easily. I like the character too much to throw him away so soon.